Comme Des Garcons - Guerrilla Stores

[GuerrillaBoy]

usually CdG Shops dont have music,tht why i asked....and at the start Athens didnt have either and people was complaining...lol

KAWAKUBIAN???? nice nick, we should make a blog.. " THE KAWAKUBIANS"

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

GO i-lov- GO!!

I'd like to go to Basel today, but it's 4 hours from here...

Go I LOVE!!MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!!!

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

Kawakubian??

Is that nick supposed to refer to Rei?

i think so, KAWAKUBO - the supporters and fellows of KAWAKUBO are THE KAWAKUBIANS...

 

[nqth]

nqth i will give you
more details about the place /actually you can see exactly where it is in www.berlin.de and then "stadtplan", and then the name and the number of the street...it is just direct from the bernauerstr. metro station)

Thanks :-) I've checked that map actually. But I thought the number is at the end of the street, between Mitte and Wedding. (Friends of mine used to live in Wedding:-)

I remember Sophienstr quite well. I love Hackerscher Markt. I think around the corner there is v. nice shop that sells MMM and Y3. Looks like a laundry:-)

Oh I hope I will come to Berlin this summer, just for a few days:-)

I-love. Go, and please give some reports:-))

Sorry for OT:-)

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

I wish for more GS openings!!! CROSS FINGRERS!!

 

[nqth]

^ Do you know sth that we don't know, GB:-)))?

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

No, i wish nqth... the last that i ve heard it was Berlin, but someone, one sunny day before almost a year told me that it is going to be a GS in Istabul, but dont anything else.....

 

[nqth]

^Yes, I have heard that too, also Argentina. But it was so long ago, I don't know why they could not finalize it. But it depends on the people from the cities. Sometimes it is probl with "right" localization.

 

[Honey~Blade]

Who funds the G stores in the end? The shop-holders or CdG themselves?

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

^^ Yeah, as you said nqth, it depends. Each city is totally dif from the other.Alos a problem might be the laws of each city, some them are crazy, in Athens you cannot open a store and close it a fter one year, it is illegal...lol!!!I ve heard that i Warsaw you have problems with the locations?If i am right...

 

[i-love-polkadots]

From what I heard

^Yes, I have heard that too, also Argentina. But it was so long ago, I don't know why they could not finalize it. But it depends on the people from the cities. Sometimes it is probl with "right" localization.

From what I heard from an Argentinian friend, CdG is not or only hard to find in Argentina in general. So maybe a GS would be even more difficult.

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

Rei Kawakubo

I dont know if anyone ever post this, but in any way i hope you enjoy it.

Kawakubo's furniture designs of 1984, originally intended only for her stores, were briefly made commercially available by Paolo Pallucco. Kawakubo described the table as intended for the "transitional" spaces in her shops, such as the mirrored areas outside of dressing rooms. She stated, "I prefer hard, solid materials, like concrete, iron or lead. Contrary to the belief that you like something because it is easy to use or functional, I use things because I like them...a garment may be uncomfortable, but you still wear it if you like it." Indeed, the granite table tops, their fault lines delineating each seperate slab, seem forcefully quarried from the earth and polished into grudging submission, much like her clothing which employed jagged rips of fabric from a larger loomed piece.

Polished and semi-polished granite, iron bases, on castors; the two triangular tables can be rolled together to form a rectangle
together: 17 x 47 x 35 1/8 in.
(43.2 x 119.4 x 89.2 cm)

 

[nqth]

Yes there were huge probl. with locations. You win the place and next day it appears that sb else takes it...

I-love, CdG was not very known here in Warsaw b4 the Guerrilla. Few ppl know and fewer wore the clothes. It might be a logistic probl for Argentina, tho. Europe and Asia are closer:-P

 

[nqth]

The G perfumes will be launched 20 of July
The first in a new series, means will be more?
http://www.doverstreetmarket.com/dsmpaper/guerrillaparfum.html

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

Yeah and I am very sorry about this, I was waitting them end of month

^ Well, it is just a guess...i think that they will be more G PERFUMES, inspired by each city, ex. GUERRILLA WARSAW or GUERRILLA ATHENS, mmmm... how Athens could smell like????interesting!!

 

[i-love-polkadots]

Yes there were huge probl. with locations. You win the place and next day it appears that sb else takes it...

I-love, CdG was not very known here in Warsaw b4 the Guerrilla. Few ppl know and fewer wore the clothes. It might be a logistic probl for Argentina, tho. Europe and Asia are closer:-P

Yes, it's very far away and maybe people have a different style or view on fashion as well.

 

[i-love-polkadots]

Yeah and I am very sorry about this, I was waitting them end of month

^ Well, it is just a guess...i think that they will be more G PERFUMES, inspired by each city, ex. GUERRILLA WARSAW or GUERRILLA ATHENS, mmmm... how Athens could smell like????interesting!!

That sounds great, like the black series with incense. They also smell like the cities (Avignon and so on). I am wondering what Cologne would smell like - probably Eau de Cologne...

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

^ LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

^^ I will agree with you I-LOV - > "WE" can understand the philosophy and maybe some of us may have high aesthetic vlaues as i am calling people who apreciate creative fashion, but there is another group of people which they dont understand or even worst they dont have a clue about who is CdG, UC, NN, RAF, MARTIN, ELBAZ etc.

GUERRILLA : Small group of indepedent people fighting or struggling for what they belive in.

I bet nqth you already know that

 

[i-love-polkadots]

^ I am not such a hard 'fighter' as you are, I guess. I am in different moods and so I change my view on on what I wear depending on those moods very often. Of course I have things I would never wear or designers who I do not like at all...

But I think I am not the kind of girl fighting or struggling...more enjoying...

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

^ i absolutely understand what you say i- lov.

But CdG with the already mentioned ^^ you really have to fight for your store if you wanna see it growing up....it is very difficult for people to see benath all this...i hope one day to understand it better